Quotes About Awareness

The older you get, of course, the knowingness of the truth - the ownership of knowing - is louder.

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.

Kids are coming online and connecting at a pace that's faster than their physical maturation process. Would you ever imagine that you'd have to talk to your kid about phishing before you're talking to him about the birds and the bees?

Of course, we should all be aware of what we're packing in our carry-on luggage - anything that might be considered dangerous could be confiscated at a security checkpoint.

I'm ecstatic to be known as pad man, as it makes a difference to women's lives.

So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.

It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.

I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.

Examine our every action through the lens of how we would feel if it were to become front page news.

I was reading newspaper front pages from the 1930s, and I was taken aback. I'm not naive about American history, but I was a bit knocked off my feet by things that used to be on the front pages of newspapers.

I never really paid attention to sales until the second record.

I remember in a film of mine, though both my co-star and I were newcomers, he got far better paid than me. I was shocked and appalled. I actually asked him what different are you doing that you are getting better paid!

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.

I think people sleepwalk through their lives, and for me, I wanted to embrace everything. And that meant the agonizing pain and the transcendence, and you can't have one without the other.

For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain.

If you have an ache or pain, or if you don't feel well, get yourself checked.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

First time you step on these new legs, it's bloody hard. It's painful on your pelvic bones. But every day I get more of a feel for where my feet are.

We're all in denial from time to time. We all see things that are too painful to really deal with. But this has consequences, and the consequences of not vaccinating your children are not only just that those children are exposed to illnesses; it's that everyone else they go to school with and they hang around with are, too.

I saw things before they happened, and that scared me very much. The premonitions would always be accompanied by harsh and painful physical sensations.

Being mentally ill is not a joke. It is a most painful thing.

If I criticize my country, it is indeed very painful for me. It doesn't make me happy. But, if I see something wrong, it becomes my duty to speak up.

I was always one who thought that if something is painful, you just ignore it and it will go away. That's not true.